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Bride hosts ‘wedding’ dinner alone after fiance gets HFMD

FUN IN THE END: Ms Caryn Lee (left, with her family) went ahead with the wedding dinner when she could not get her restaurant deposit back.PHOTOS: COURTESY OF CARYN LEE, SHIN MIN

FUN IN THE END: The cake has the Chinese characters for “double happiness” as Ms Lee is three months-pregnant.PHOTOS: COURTESY OF CARYN LEE, SHIN MIN

"They were very inflexible and there was no room for negotiation, not even when I asked if I could come down and speak to someone." - Ms Caryn Lee (right, with fiancee Andy Peh) on restaurant Halia at Raffles HotelPHOTOS: COURTESY OF CARYN LEE, SHIN MIN

Bride goes ahead with wedding dinner even after groom gets HFMD

Her fiance had hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) and was under home quarantine on the day of their wedding.

But the restaurant had been booked and their $8,500 deposit would be forfeited if they did not turn up.

So financial advisor Caryn Lee, 31, went ahead and hosted a dinner for more than 60 relatives and close friends as a way of saying "thank you".

Speaking to The New Paper yesterday, Ms Lee, who is three-months pregnant, was upset at what she considers inflexibility from Halia, a contemporary European restaurant with Asian influences, at Raffles Hotel.

She said: "They were very inflexible and there was no room for negotiation, not even when I asked if I could come down and speak to someone."

Ms Lee and her fiance Andy Peh, 33, met as colleagues at a financial advisory firm and decided late last year to tie the knot after a whirlwind romance.